1st Edition

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act Lacan and the Lacanians

By Jean Allouch Copyright 2025
114 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

114 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

114 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence. Jean Allouch examines key events – the crimes of the Papin sisters, Lacan’s case of Aimée and the murder of Hélène Rytmann by Louis Althusser – and unpacks the concept of the "passage to the act". The book assesses... Read more

Foreword Jean Allouch in memoriam

Translator's Notes

Presentation of "New Remarks on the Passage to the Act" by Jean Allouch

Provenance of Texts

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

 

I Actuality of the Passage to the Act

 

II To Think, to Act: Lois Althusser

 

III Passage to the Act and the Epic Leap: Marguerite Duras

 

Conclusion: Enlightened Passage to the Act: Lacan

Biography

Jean Allouch (1939–2023) was an internationally renowned psychoanalyst and one of the founders and directors of the review Littoral, as well as of the École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse (Paris). He was one of the most prominent and prolific authors in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Oscar Zentner is a Lacanian psychoanalyst trained in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with María-Inés Rotmiler de Zentner, he introduced in 1977 Lacan’s psychoanalytic tenets in Australia.